If you’ve struggled with weight loss and found little if any success, consider using the services of a Bronx personal trainer. Losing weight isn’t a difficult concept, but it is difficult to do. You have to eat fewer calories than you burn. When you live a sedentary lifestyle, you probably don’t burn that many, so you need to reduce your caloric intake drastically or find a way to burn more calories.

Exercise and healthy eating habits can take off weight painlessly.

Not all personal trainers have certification in nutrition, so some of them work with nutritionist for advice on nutrition. Either way, you’ll learn new ways of eating that aren’t a diet, but can help shed pounds. Maybe it’s as simple as substituting one food for another, such as using Greek yogurt to replace sour cream. You might even find eating more meals a day helpful. The key is to use both a healthy diet and regular exercise to take off pounds. It’s kryptonite for fat cells.

Exercise not only burns extra calories when you’re doing it, it has other benefits too.

Exercise builds muscle tissue and reduces the amount of fat tissue you have. The more muscle tissue you have, the more calories you burn, even when you’re not exercising. You’ll also appear thinner, regardless of what the scales say. That’s because one cubic inch of muscle tissue weighs more than one cubic inch of fat. It’s like comparing the container for a pound of feathers and a pound of iron. The container for the feathers will be much larger.

Gaining weight is a vicious cycle. Losing weight is also a cycle, but a fantastic one.

The more weight you gain, the less you feel like doing anything, so the more weight you gain. You may even find that you eat out of boredom. Once you start becoming fitter and thinner, you’ll have more energy to other activities. You’ll burn more calories enjoying life. You’ll also find you’re more motivated to eat right and not nearly as hungry as you would be if you plopped down in front of the TV to watch the latest episode of the newest reality show.

You’ll help prevent serious conditions and even improve those you may already have. Studies show that exercise can prevent high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol, Alzheimer’s disease, osteoporosis and even some forms of cancer. It also can improve those conditions if you already have them.

It doesn’t matter what your fitness level. A personal trainer designs a program specifically to meet your needs, fitness level and goals.

You’ll find working with a trainer a huge motivator. Just knowing you meet with him or her regularly can often help keep you on the right track, but trainers also provide other types of motivation.

You’ll feel better about yourself when you start working out. Studies show that people have an improved self-image when they workout, even before they see results.